Sep 4, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers headed by Dr R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii has determined that our Milky Way Galaxy lives in a newly...

Sep 3, 2014 by News Staff

A non-native species of camel cricket known as the Greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora) has spread into homes across the eastern United States,...

Aug 31, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational collaboration of physicists has directly detected neutrinos created by the proton-proton fusion process going on at the heart of the Sun. Physicists...

Aug 30, 2014 by News Staff

According to genetic researchers headed by Prof Leif Andersson of Texas A&M University, Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,...

Aug 29, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of archaeologists who have analyzed samples from about 40 large wine jars found in a 3,700-year-old Canaanite royal wine cellar at...

Aug 28, 2014 by News Staff

A study on an African fish called the Senegal bichir (Polypterus senegalus) led by Dr Hans Larsson of McGill University shows what might have happened...

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr Martin Brasier of the University of Oxford and the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dr Alexander Liu of the University of Cambridge...

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Hugo Messias of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, has...

Aug 26, 2014 by News Staff

Underwater archaeologists from the Groplan project, led by Dr Timmy Gambin of the University of Malta, say they have discovered the remains of a sunken...

Aug 25, 2014 by News Staff

The newly developed transparent luminescent solar concentrator can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface, says...

Aug 25, 2014 by News Staff

On August 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft passed within about 40,000 km of Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune. In commemoration...

Aug 23, 2014 by News Staff

A 7,000-year-old copper awl unearthed at the archaeological site of Tel Tsaf, Israel, is the earliest metal artifact found to date in the Middle East,...

Aug 22, 2014 by News Staff

Using the High Dispersion Spectrograph mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, astronomers led by Dr Wako Aoki of the National Astronomical...

Aug 22, 2014 by News Staff

Paleosols (ancient fossilized soils) filling the Yellowknife Bay geologic formation within the 3.7-billion-year-old Gale Crater on Mars are strong evidence...

Aug 21, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists led by Dr Alfred Sanchis Serra from the Museu de Prehistòria de València have reported evidence of land snail consumption from the archaeological...

Aug 21, 2014 by News Staff

Anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals were both living in Europe for up to 5,400 years, says a new study conducted by Oxford University researcher...

Aug 20, 2014 by News Staff

A group of astronomers using the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has captured an image of two intriguing and beautiful star formation...

Aug 20, 2014 by News Staff

Toothless flying reptiles from the pterosaur family Azhdarchidae dominated the skies during the Upper Cretaceous, between 100 and 60 million years ago,...

Aug 18, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Dheeraj Pasham at the University of Maryland have determined the mass of a black hole known as M82 X-1, which is located in the nearby...

Aug 16, 2014 by News Staff

A group of astronomers from Europe, Australia and the United States led by Dr Janez Kos of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has produced pseudo-3D...